LOWLIFE TALES

Almost twenty years ago, M. G. Sanchez broke decades of Gibraltarian literary silence with Rock Black — a stark fictional look at Gibraltarian smugglers, alcoholics, ex-pat drifters, and other lives pushed to the margins. Lowlife Tales, his latest collection of stories, doesn’t just return to that world — it confronts it with prose that cuts sharper and deeper than ever . . . yet remains keenly aware of the quiet absurdities that make us human.

"Reading Sanchez’s latest book of short stories is essential for an understanding of modern day Gibraltar. His fictional Gibraltar is nothing less than a revealing and penetrating re-creation of life on the Rock in all its contradiction and absurdity. No history books contain such insights.”

Giordano Durante, Gibraltarian poet and journalist.

“These eleven highly-charged, electric and eclectic stories will leave no one untouched. While exploring the uniqueness of Gibraltarian culture, they go further to dissect and lay bare the human condition in its lowest and highest forms.”

Isabel Alonso-Breto, University of Barcelona.

“Sanchez is an expert at describing everyday characters, often victims of society for being different. The ‘lowlife’ in the title refers not only to the Gibraltarian underworld, but also to the inner life of these marginal characters struggling to survive in the shadow of the Rock of Gibraltar.”

Rafael Vélez Nuñez, Universidad de Cádiz. 

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